Today is a day set apart for “Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer” as decreed by “his Excellency the President of the Confederate States.” Many Southern Baptist divines, caught up in the Christian nationalist fervor that permeates the Confederacy, happily comply with Davis’ decree. One such prominent Baptist is Henry Holcombe Tucker of Georgia, professor of Belles-Lettres…
As the days turn colder, southern concern for soldiers’ health grows. Soldiers are anxious about illness in their midst, while family and friends on the home front fret about disease and illness among loved one. As Confederate soldiers serve far from homes and hearths and suffer travails, patriotic appeals for assistance from residents in the…
The annual Alabama Baptist State Convention, still convened in Marion, makes certain, prior to dismissing, to reaffirm the Confederacy as God’s chosen nation. Having already claimed the Christian high ground, at the previous year’s annual meeting, in defending southern rights (i.e, white supremacy and African slavery), delegates in this session address more directly the righteousness…